This is where I wish he made a distinction between raising a family living in the middle class vs a upper middle to high class lifestyle. I know he has explained the reasoning for the amount of money (4+ bed house, two cars, cars for teenagers, college paid for or almost, vacations, etc...) a man has to make by himself but a lot of the time he does not.
The problem is he is talking about a man’s peak earnings instead of discounting it to today’s earnings and schooling women in terms of how to scout those potential men.
The ladies aren’t saying they want all that stuff, in terms of lifestyle, immediately.
Ok. You want all that stuff
one day and it’ll take a man making $400k to make it a reality.
What men can you date now that will get to that level down the road?
Just mentioning HENRYs doesn’t go far enough to help the women. What types of careers are the HENRYs in that will lead to that lifestyle for you as a woman?
Not all HENRYs are created equal in terms of career path and potential earnings. An accountant isn’t the same as a person in private equity. A surgeon isn’t the same as a marketing professional.
Our woman, although making strides in terms of higher education, are pretty ignorant when it comes to various high-paying career paths outside healthcare and those other careers celebrated in media.
Most don’t know the difference between IT and engineering, for example, and even how those differ in terms of career earnings and trajectory.
That’s where experts in that type of knowledge could really give our women some game when it comes to scouting. Non-Black women have this game. They know how to scout.
He could even reference this:
Career Planning | Salary Potential | Earnings Projections | ERI Economic Research Institute
Centering the conversation on HVM will not help more of our women win. They will continue to take Ls when compared to their non-Black counterparts.